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2001 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 432.12 (Matthew Henry)
… would dispense with his own resolution of deferring the slaughter till the time determined by the lot, and therefore advised him to take an earnest and foretaste …
2002 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 433.10 (Matthew Henry)
… in dispensing the king’s favour; and the king knew nothing of any quarrel he had with Mordecai. Haman is brought in immediately, proud of the honour done him …
2003 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 441.17 (Matthew Henry)
… , the dispensations of the divine grace, or the disposals of the divine providence, make themselves more just and pure than God; and those who thus reprove God …
2004 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 448.8 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensations of the divine Providence.
2005 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 448.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensations of it, we talk of things that we do not understand. We cannot find out God; how dare we then find fault with him? Zophar here shows, (1.) That God’s …
2006 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 449.12 (Matthew Henry)
… difficult dispensations must be resolved. Zophar had made a vast mystery of it, Job 11:7. “So far from that,” says Job, “that what we are concerned to know we may learn …
2007 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 454.13 (Matthew Henry)
… such dispensations of Providence, paradoxes which will not be unfolded till the mystery of God shall be finished. (2.) It will animate them. Instead of being …
2008 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 456.15 (Matthew Henry)
… last dispensation) upon the earth: so it points at his incarnation; or, He shall be lifted up from the earth (so it points at his crucifixion), or raised up out of …
2009 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 465.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensations of Providence towards the wicked and the righteous. Job had shown that some wicked men live and die in prosperity, while others are presently …
2010 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 465.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensations of Providence in the government of the world. “What fools are we” (says Job) “to fight in the dark thus, to dispute about that which we do not understand …
2011 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 465.14 (Matthew Henry)
… in dispensing frowns and favours, rewards and punishments, to the children of men, according to the rules of equity.
2012 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 466.18 (Matthew Henry)
… he dispense his favours as not to make them cheap, and so wisely did they receive them as not to make themselves unworthy of them another time.
2013 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 470.5 (Matthew Henry)
… his dispensations of his providence towards us, that he is righteous in all his ways, and that, however it be, yet he is good. 2. “Thou dost not speak the language …
2014 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 470.6 (Matthew Henry)
… those dispensations which you put this harsh construction upon.” Observe in general, 1. What a friend God is to our welfare: He speaketh to us once, yea, twice, Job …
2015 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 470.18 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensations of his providence towards the children of men, is to save them from being for ever miserable and bring them to be for ever happy, Job 33:29 …
2016 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 471.10 (Matthew Henry)
… a dispensation that is committed to him, but his power is original, and, like his being, of himself; and therefore, if he were not perfectly just, all the world and …
2017 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 473.10 (Matthew Henry)
… these dispensations,—if, when the affliction is removed, they continue in the same good mind that they were in when they were under the smart of it and perform …
2018 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 473.22 (Matthew Henry)
… his dispensations concerning us, and the counsels of his will concerning our affairs? We are here called to consider the work of God, Ecclesiastes 7:13. 1. It …
2019 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 473.24 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensations of common providence, beginning in this chapter with the clouds and the rain that descends from them. We need not be critical in examining …
2020 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 473.25 (Matthew Henry)
… , only dispensing it in another manner, to let us know how much we lie at his mercy, and how kind he is, in giving rain by drops, that the benefit of it may be the further …